Matthew Sells News

The new Off-Broadway play THE INDEPENDENTS is extending its limited engagement, Off-Broadway run through Monday, December 1st in the Anne L. Bernstein Theater at The Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street. 3rd Floor. https://www.theindependentsplay.com

The Theater Arts Department at Don Bosco Preparatory High School, one of North Jersey's largest private academic institutions, will present a chilling production of Frankenstein, based on the classic novel by Mary Shelley, on November 22nd, 23rd, & 24th. With an original script by Theater Program Director, Brooke DeBettignies, the play highlights the beautiful language of Mary Shelley's original text while bringing to life the intricate relationship between a creator and his creation.

The stormy relationship between prominent 19th-century American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt and celebrated French painter, sculpter and printmaker Edgar Degas is the subject of interest in the new Off-Broadway play THE INDEPENDENTS, written and directed by Christopher Ward.

Frank J. Avella's black comedy, IRIS will be presented on Friday, February 16th at 8PM at the Dramatists Guild as part of the Friday Night Footlights Reading Series. The event is free.

Alice Barrett Mitchell has been cast as Pia in For Mamma, a new stage play that explores the plight of a biracial gay man's struggle to keep his mother alive while dealing with government red tape and a caseworker's prejudice. The piece is being presented as part of a Scratch Night at Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director).

For Mamma, a new stage work that explores the plight of a biracial gay man's struggle to keep his mother alive while dealing with government red tape and a caseworker's prejudice is being presented as part of a Scratch Night at Theater for the New City.

Perhaps it's a case of perfect timing - or maybe it's simply the fact that a revival of a much-beloved Tony Award-winning best musical is enough to attract a strong ensemble of men to the project - but make no mistake about it, Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts succeeds where so many companies have fallen short in bringing a superbly mounted production of Sherman Edwards' and Peter Stone's 1776 to vibrant life onstage!